Thats where the OuterBay software comes in. Its new suite, which EMC calls Database Xtender, includes a tool to monitor and analyze database growth patterns; another to identify and relocate inactive data from primary to secondary storage; and a third that parses unnecessary data to save capacity. An archiver piece of the suite is expected by midyear.
The software suite is the key component of a joint services agreement between EMC and Oracle Consulting to help Oracle customers migrate inactive database records onto more cost-effective storage.
Clint Vaughan, EMCs director of technology strategy, says the suite helps solve capacity and data movement challenges without adding hardware. People will typically throw more hardware at the problem and use databases to do more tuning, he says. Thats like pushing a rock up a hill. Youre just making incremental changes.
Vaughan says support for other databases besides Oracle will become available later this year.
New services offered by EMCs Technology Solutions division come from a consulting group formed together with Accenture two years ago. The new services include ILM workshops, four-to-six-week assessment services, and onsite managed services.
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